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1. Chouteaus and Fur Trade Chouteaus and Fur Trade 1943 Short description of the Chouteaus' fur trade dominance on the Missouri River in the late 1700s, leading to their agreement with the Spanish government to build Fort Carondelet for exclusive trading rights...
2. Fort Carondelet Fort Carondelet 1943 Short description of the building and maintenance of Fort Carondelet by the Chouteaus for their fur trade.

[Auguste] Chouteau obtained a monopoly of the Osage trade in 1794, and kept it until 1802....
3. Fort Carondelet and Osage Amour Propre Fort Carondelet and Osage Amour Propre Autumn//2001 Fort Carondelet was built by the Chouteau Family in 1794 and was situated south of Kansas City in what is now Vernon County, Missouri. The article describes some of the relationships between the French...
4. Fort Scott Sheet Fort Scott Sheet 1922 Topographical map of areas of Bourbon County, Kansas, and Barton and Vernon counties in Missouri, including the towns of Fort Scott, Kansas, and Liberal, Missouri. Map also depicts railroads, creeks and...
5. How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named October 1, 1918 Fifth of a series of articles about the origins of place names in Missouri, including Saint Clair County, or St. Clair County (containing the town of Lowry City), Saline County (containing the towns of...
6. John A. Bushnell Family Papers Finding Aid John A. Bushnell Family Papers Finding Aid 1842-1914 John A. Bushnell was a businessman who came to Missouri and settled in Calhoun, Henry County. Collection contains correspondence and legal documents. Most of the material relates to Henry County, Missouri,...
7. Louis O. Honig Scrapbooks Finding Aid Louis O. Honig Scrapbooks Finding Aid 1855-1951 (bulk 1937-1950) Three scrapbooks compiled by Honig that has newspaper clippings, photos, etc., and information on Westport, Kansas City, and places in the state of Missouri. Louis Honig was the author of "Westport: Gateway...
8. Map of Vernon Co. Mo. Map of Vernon Co. Mo. Civil War era map of Vernon County, Missouri showing roads, rivers and towns. Includes a chart for typical section numbering pattern and shows state and county lines. No map key is included.
9. Missouri Democracy: A History of the Party and Its Representative Members--Past and Present Missouri Democracy: A History of the Party and Its Representative Members--Past and Present 1935 Biographical sketch of Richard Phelps, "district attorney for the Home Owners Loan Corporation" in Kansas City. Born in Vernon County, Missouri in 1890 and becoming a Missouri state representative there...
10. Missouriana--Fort Carondelet Missouriana--Fort Carondelet October//1940 Article about Fort Carondelet, the Spanish trading post of the Chouteaus, named after Baron de Carondelet, governor general of Louisiana" in 1794. Detailed description of the fort in Vernon County, Missouri,...
11. Missouriana--The Missouri Heritage of the West Part II: The Southwestern States Missouriana--The Missouri Heritage of the West Part II: The Southwestern States April//1939 Mention of Fort Carondelet, Missouri, a trading outpost held by the Chouteau family for the Spanish government in about 1802.
12. Missouriana: John Brown's Missouri Raid Missouriana: John Brown's Missouri Raid October//1931 Tale of the Kansas-Missouri border war "retold with some new facts, with details about the raid led by John Brown of Kansas Territory into Vernon County, Missouri in 1858, important "as being among his...
13. Nevada Quadrangle Nevada Quadrangle 1948 Topographical map of Vernon County, Missouri, including the city of Nevada and the Camp Clark Military Reservation. Roads of varying grades are depicted, as are railroads, local churches, schools, and...
14. Quarter-Centennial Cottey College: Silver Jubilee Quarter-Centennial Cottey College: Silver Jubilee November-December//1909 History of Cottey College, a women's college established "in Nevada, Vernon County, Missouri, in 1884."
15. The Beginning of the West: Annals of the Kansas Gateway to the American West, 1540-1854 The Beginning of the West: Annals of the Kansas Gateway to the American West, 1540-1854 1972 Descriptions (with scholarly references) of early French explorations and camps in and around the Kansas City area back to the early 1700s. Description of "the Kansa village" at the mouth of the Kansas...
16. Vernon County, Missouri Vernon County, Missouri circa 1910 Shows townships, towns, roads, railroads, and waterways. Map may have been taken from Hixson Plat Book of Vernon County (MVSC Q 912.778 V54h).